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I had a lovely Boob-Ha-Ha opportunity land square in my lap today. While squatting lunching at CooperElla (It's not squatting if I provide lots of free advertising, right?), the editor of the home section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch stopped by, hoping to find some crafty types to test drive some Martha Stewart-branded scrapbooking gadgets. Which we did, immediately turning them into things other than scrapbooking gadgets. Beqi and I took the opportunity to accost this poor woman with our current pet projects - Boob-Ha-Ha for me and Craftaostra for her. We shall see if we get the big local media shout-out.

In the meantime we got a cool local indie media shout-out from Cranky Yellow. Funny thing is, I hadn't heard about them until today. And when I got home, there they were on Boob-Ha-Ha! Sure, probably not a coincidence, but that's fine.

I'm just blown away by peoples' willingness to spread the word and donate. Oh my God! Now that the auction items are starting to arrive, both physically and via photos, I'm ... speechless. Honestly speechless. The only thing I can say that even comes close to expressing my amazement at the willingness and generosity people have shown in this fundraiser is this: from now on, when I catch myself doubting the goodness of humanity on the whole, and wondering if there's any good left in the world, I'm going to make myself look back on this experience. Even if that means holding onto the spreadsheet with all my donation info and reading it every few months. There are a lot of extremely giving people out there who, when you ask for one, will gladly give you six. Or maybe that's just the kind of people I know. Either way, I'm glad. And holy God, it's starting to hit me that I'm going to have to dye my hair pink in the near future, because at this point I think we're going to clear $1000 if each auction item only brings the minimum bid.

Oh boy.

Did I mention that in addition to all of this my parents and grandparents are going to be squatting staying at our house this weekend? You know that's always fun, and I'm sure the blog fodder will finally stretch beyond Murphy escape stories and Boob-Ha-Ha promos. Next up: House Full o' Hillbillies Stories!